Outdoor Christmas Decorating

Outdoor Christmas decorating is traditionally about adorning your home and outbuildings with lights and holiday displays.

Lights are an important part of decorating the outside of our homes and property for Christmas and should always be included in our decorating scheme.

However, there are many other ways to bring holiday cheer to the outside of your home that will compliment your lighting displays at night, while adding color and charm to your home and landscape during the daytime hours as well.

Beautiful and Fun Outdoor Christmas Decorating Ideas

Fill your birdbath with Christmas greenery and then arrange colorful Christmas tree ornaments in and around a small artificial tree or a gazing ball. Add some mini lights to create a stunning evening display.
Window boxes need not sit empty through the winter months. Fill them to overflowing with pine boughs, pinecones, and twigs for a beautiful wintery display.
Prop a vintage sled against your porch wall and decorate it with greenery, twigs, berries, and Christmas ornaments for a beautiful daytime display sure to welcome your friends and family in style.
A classic and still stunning Christmas decorating style is long pine garlands strung along your white picket fence with lights and red bows at varying intervals. This is effective for both daytime and evening decorating.
It's unlikely you'll be sitting on those benches during the cold winter months, so dress them up in the meantime with large pinecones, pine branches, bows, and leftover Christmas ornaments.
Fill a bushel basket with florist's foam and then insert twigs, silk flowers, pine branches, and artificial fruit in at varying heights to create a unique holiday decoration for your porch, stoop, or steps.
Wrap empty cereal boxes (stuff them with newspaper first) with colorful Christmas paper and place them inside a wheelbarrow or planter.
Create a simple front door ornament using a large bow, evergreens peeking out from behind the bow, and a single Christmas tree ornament suspended in the middle for added glitz.
Add a few grapevine wreaths of varying sizes to the walls of your porch, the side of the garden shed, or along your front fence. Decorate with holly berries, baby's breath, and some greens to add Christmas flair.
Hang homemade soup can luminaries from shepherd's hooks and line your walkway or driveway to welcome your family and friends visiting for the holidays
Wrap trellises, arbors, and lampposts with twinkle lights for cheerful Christmas ambiance.
Create stars from twigs (using a few nails or jute string) and then cover with tiny Christmas lights. Suspend these from the porch banisters, the porch ceiling, or adorn your porch walls with them.
Gather together all of your vintage lanterns and place sand and candles inside. Cluster them in one or several groups on outdoor tables or line the front steps with them to welcome your guests.
Nativity scenes are a traditional and beautiful addition to any outdoor holiday display.
Decorate and display a Christmas tree for your front porch.
String lights everywhere - outside on the garage, the house, fences, columns, and anywhere else you think could use a bit more sparkle.